Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
London: Sold by B. White and Son, 1789. Third edition (first edition was 1756). Browne was an Irish... Read More about The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Containing 1. An accurate Description of that Island,...
Price: $7,500
London: 1712. First edition in English. Ozanam's Cours de mathematiques, first published in 1693, contains sections on algebra and Euclid's Elements, arithmetic, trigonometry, geometry, fortification, mechanics, perspective, geography and dialling. John Theophilus Desaguliers, whose name is mentioned on the title-pages of volumes 4 and 5, published his translation of Ozanam's..... Read More about Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with...
Price: $2,750
Paris: C. Reinwald...Schleicher Freres & Cie, 1903. First edition. Read More about L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie
Price: $350
Paris: Duprat, An IX. Read More about Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P.S. Laplace
Price: $200
Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1928. Memoiors of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume 6, Number 3. Birds of the Russian Tundra. A large, scholarly work, based on the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900-1903 undertaken by the St.Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Read More about Birds of the Eurasian Tundra
Price: $400
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition. Read More about Oceanic Birds of South America
Price: $175
Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC..... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $900
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed, "A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d'affection de l'auteur E. Blanchard." Read More about Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces -...
Price: $450
À Paris: Chez l’auteur. Et se vend À Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1699. Sixth edition (first published 1683). The Art of Firing a Mortar. Blondel (1618-1686), brilliant mathematician, architect engineer, and topographer, was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1669. He became director of the Royal Academy of..... Read More about L’art de jetter les bombes
Price: $2,000
New York: J.J. Augustin, [1945]. FIRST EDITION. Ownership signature of M F Ashley Montagu on ffep. Read More about Race and Democatric Society
Price: $100
London: Henry Henshaw, 1859. First English edition. Read More about On Hallucinations: A history and explanation of apparitions, visions, dreams, ecstasy, magnetism,...
Price: $150
Brooklyn, N.Y: 264-266-268 & 270 Fulton Street, c. 1889. Read More about The Bolton Drug Co. Illustrated Price List
Price: $275
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the..... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...
Price: $1,500
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Publishers, [1923]. First American edition from English sheets. Atomic and Electron Theories. The eminent German physicist was especially noted for his work on the atomic structure, development of quantum mechanics and his studies in relativity. He was winner of the Nobel Prize in..... Read More about The Constitution of Matter. Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. Translated from the Second...
Price: $75
Boston: Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation, November 8, 1843. Stock certificate for thirty-six shares of the Boston and Providence Rail Road, signed by Henry Dalton--cancelled November 16, 1843 (in manuscript). Read More about Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation
Price: $150
Boston: JAN, 18, 1843. Signed on last leaf "Dr. E. Parmly Bond St." Read More about The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. XXVII, No. 24
Price: $150
Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, 1955. First edition. Read More about Oiseaux d'Afrique Tropicale (Première Partie
Price: $100
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième). Read More about Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing
Price: $150
Paris - Lyon: B [et] Germer Baillière Librairie - Charles Safy Jeune Librairie-Éditeur, 1844. First edition. Read More about Traité complet de l'Hypochondrie... Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie royale de Médecine
Price: $375
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More about New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical
Price: $750
London: for the Author and sold by Longman, Hurst Rees, et. al, 1812. First edition. Read More about Clavis Calendaria; or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical,...
Price: $300
[Boston: Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818]. First American edition. Read More about Dissertation Third: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Chemical Philosophy from the...
Price: $250
Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Read More about Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts,...
Price: $200
N.d. Original Paul Bransom Drawing. A strong and attractive portrait. Paul Bransom (1885-1979), a native of Washington, D.C., received early training in mechanical drawing which led him to analyze and record the individual characteristics of each of the animals he drew. He had a long and distinguished career as an..... Read More about Vandergo Monkey
Price: $750
